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Problem:
I hooked it up on vga then used detect display. I chose the best one, 1680 by 1050

The quality it shows on the dell is amazing BUT will only fill in 3/4 of the screen. There is a huge border remaining, the resolution is already on highest, anyone know why it isnt showing it on full screen .
Thanks

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1680x1050 is the screen native resolution. So if it's showing in 3/4 of the screen, it cannot be 1680x1050 on the screen. Try unplugging and re-plugging the monitor from the iBook / putting the iBook to sleep and re-waking it. After you do that, if it still looks the way it does, then see if it still says it's on 1680x1050?

Anyways try uninstalling the screen hack and installing it again, see if that works.
After reading the forums on the screen doctor website, lots of people have their ibook working with that monitor so you ibook should work with it.

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Thanks Eulon.
After reinstalling and intensive testing this is what I can conclude:
- When it is on mirroring using the best resolution does not make it full screen
-HOWEVER, when I use extended desktop, using the max resolution , it WILL give me a full clear display on my Dell 2005FPW but will lose the full screen once i turn mirroring back on

-Thus I can say that there is some bug/flaw in the Screen Doctor as it is only in beta mode. As for clamshell mode, I will try that later =)

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Thanks Eulon.
After reinstalling and intensive testing this is what I can conclude:
- When it is on mirroring using the best resolution does not make it full screen
-HOWEVER, when I use extended desktop, using the max resolution , it WILL give me a full clear display on my Dell 2005FPW but will lose the full screen once i turn mirroring back on

-Thus I can say that there is some bug/flaw in the Screen Doctor as it is only in beta mode. As for clamshell mode, I will try that later =)

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I agree with reh, so there is no way of viewing full screen in mirroing mode. And I think clamshell mode SHOULD be fine. I will try it later as I will also leave the ibook slightly open.

Side Note: The Dell 2005fpw is really useful, because I plug my dvi to my PC Computer and VGA into the ibook, thus I can switch between them easily without unplugging. Also it has external usb ports on the sides where my keyboard+ mouse is bluetooth so I can just swap the usb bluetooth and my ibook will have an external keyboard/mouse

macrumors 6502a

I agree with reh, so there is no way of viewing full screen in mirroing mode. And I think clamshell mode SHOULD be fine. I will try it later as I will also leave the ibook slightly open.

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This display has many options for scaling and stretching the picture. You can scale 1024x768 out so it hits the top and bottom of the screen while leaving black bars on the sides. Or you can distort the picture to actually fill the screen. All these settings are on the monitor's on-screen controls.

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re the unchecking of the mirroring mode, that is exactly what I did and when i uncheck it, full screen at best resolution works but when it is on mirroing it doesn't. Also I guess i can expand the screen manually but it would not be as crisp. Anyways thanks for the help guys

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re the unchecking of the mirroring mode, that is exactly what I did and when i uncheck it, full screen at best resolution works but when it is on mirroing it doesn't. Also I guess i can expand the screen manually but it would not be as crisp. Anyways thanks for the help guys

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re the unchecking of the mirroring mode, that is exactly what I did and when i uncheck it, full screen at best resolution works but when it is on mirroing it doesn't. Also I guess i can expand the screen manually but it would not be as crisp. Anyways thanks for the help guys

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You can't mirror at 2 different resolutions, that defeats the purpose. If it mirrored at two different resolutions, you wouldn't be giving a full 32MB of VRAM to each screen...you would be splitting it as the video card would have to render another picture at the 2nd resolution. Understand? That's why you mine as well do spanning, as it would be the same thing as mirroring at two different resolutions.

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re the unchecking of the mirroring mode, that is exactly what I did and when i uncheck it, full screen at best resolution works but when it is on mirroing it doesn't. Also I guess i can expand the screen manually but it would not be as crisp. Anyways thanks for the help guys

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How can you expect screen mirroring to work at best resolution on both displays? It's not logically possible when the displays don't have the same native resolution, hence one of them will have to be stretched or not fill the entire screen.

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